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GOP to take on Obama at Carter hearingAsh Carter will be in the witness hot seat at his confirmation hearing Wednesday, but it’s President Barack Obama who will really be on trial.

Republicans who now control the Senate Armed Services Committee plan to make Carter’s confirmation hearing to become defense secretary

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/ash-carter-senate-hearing-114846.htmlJEREMY HERBTue, 03 Feb 2015 05:32:14 ESTWhat insiders expect from Carter's hearingA candidate for Senate confirmation can have many advantages — familiarity with Congress, issue expertise and long service in the public arena — but that doesn’t mean Ash Carter’s confirmation hearing will be a walk in the park.

When the White House invited him to the ceremony in which President Barack Obama nominated his successor, he didn’t go. As members of Congress schedule their hearings about the Pentagon’s new budget, they’re getting h

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/chuck-hagel-pentagon-114537.htmlPHILIP EWINGSun, 25 Jan 2015 11:36:51 ESTObama condemns ISIL killing of Japanese citizenPresident Barack Obama on Saturday condemned the “brutal murder” of Japanese citizen Haruna Yukawa by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

A video released Tuesday revealed the terror group based in Syria and Iraq kidnapped Yukawa and another Japanese citizen, Kenji Goto,

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/president-barack-obama-isil-haruna-yukawa-114558.htmlDANIELLA DIAZSat, 24 Jan 2015 15:32:18 ESTCan Carter make a defense difference?Ash Carter faces a double-barreled challenge if he’s the next Defense secretary: leading a Pentagon handicapped by a Congress unwilling to go along with military-proposed spending reforms and working within the Obama administration that’s notorious for managing military affairs from t

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/ash-carter-113784.htmlAUSTIN WRIGHT and JEREMY HERBSun, 28 Dec 2014 08:06:43 ESTHagel in Iraq to confer on ISIL strategyDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel landed in Iraq Tuesday to meet with U.S. military and Iraqi leaders prosecuting the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi told Hagel that the U.S.-led campaign of more than 1,200 airstrikes has hurt ISIL, a

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/chuck-hagel-iraq-visit-isil-113417.htmlPHILIP EWINGTue, 09 Dec 2014 08:27:28 ESTObama's last chance on defenseIn his first six years in office, President Barack Obama hired three centrist defense secretaries whose credibility with the military and Congress shielded Obama from some of the blowback that struck the previous Democratic president, Bill Clinton.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/obamas-last-chance-on-defense-113340.htmlDAN BERMANThu, 04 Dec 2014 22:48:24 ESTAsh Carter an adviser at 'stealth' consulting firmPresident Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Pentagon is an adviser at a “stealth” consulting firm that boasted on its website, “When we do our job, only the inner circle knows that we were involved.”

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/defense-secretary-chuck-hagel-jeh-johnson-ash-carter-113239.htmlPHILIP EWING and AUSTIN WRIGHTMon, 01 Dec 2014 18:02:28 ESTDysfunction Washington can agree onIt isn’t often that left, right and center agree about the Obama White House. But the firing of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel this week produced a near-unanimous reaction: President Obama’s foreign policy team is dysfunctional and in need of a stronger tonic than the exit of a low-pro

At least two leading contenders have already ruled themselves out. Michèle Flournoy, the former undersecretary of defense for policy who now runs the Center for a New American Security, dropped out Tuesday. And a spokesman for Sen. Jac

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/chuck-hagel-barack-obama-michele-flournoy-white-house-defense-113179.htmlAUSTIN WRIGHT and MICHAEL HIRSHTue, 25 Nov 2014 19:54:55 ESTMiddle ManLate on the afternoon of July 28, 1965, Gen. Harold K. Johnson, the then-Army chief of staff, arrived outside the White House in a limousine reserved for the use of members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to an account that he gave to a group of Vietnam veterans many years later, he sat i

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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/hagel-joint-chiefs-pentagon-113171.htmlMARK PERRYTue, 25 Nov 2014 18:30:39 ESTFlournoy drops out as Hagel successorMichèle Flournoy has taken herself out of the running to succeed Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, she confirmed to POLITICO.

Flournoy — who was undersecretary of defense for policy from 2009-12 and now runs the Center for a New American Security, a think tank that’s la

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/michele-flournoy-drops-out-chuck-hagel-successor-113174.htmlAUSTIN WRIGHTTue, 25 Nov 2014 17:22:42 ESTPlayback: Chuck Hagel's resignation fire salehttp://www.politico.com/multimedia/video/2014/11/playback-chuck-hagels-resignation-fire-sale.html
http://www.politico.com/multimedia/video/2014/11/playback-chuck-hagels-resignation-fire-sale.htmlTue, 25 Nov 2014 10:27:30 ESTGuant&#225;namo added to White House-Hagel frictionThe White House has publicly signaled that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's abrupt resignation stemmed from concerns about his ability to handle the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but part of what alienated Hagel from President Barack Obama's inner circle was the

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/11/guantanamo-added-to-white-househagel-friction-199222.htmlJOSH GERSTEINMon, 24 Nov 2014 21:19:07 ESTHow Obama dumped HagelWhen President Obama first summoned Chuck Hagel to the Oval Office in October, he wanted to know how his Pentagon chief planned to cope with the dangerous new threat posed by the Islamic State that had drawn the reluctant president back into war in the Middle East, not to mention getting a sense